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PATENTED MAY 10, 1904.

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SEWING MACHINE CABINET.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 9. 1901.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 10, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

SEWING-MACHINE CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,363, dated May 10,1904. Application filed July 9, 1901. Serial No. 67,660. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I ,WILLIAM 0. FREE, acitizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSewing-Machine Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of sew ing-machine cabinets inwhich the machinesupporting platform is hinged in an opening in the topthereof and has a leaf located below and rigidly connected with suchplatform for closing the front of the same when its lid is shut.moderate-priced drop-head cabinet of very simple construction and easyoperation; and it consists of certain new and useful features ofconstruction and combinations of parts especially devised for thoseends, all as hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed outin the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

2 is a section at the line 2 2 in Fig. 1 of parts there shown. Fig. 3 isasection at the line 3 3 in Fig. 1 of parts there shown. Fig. 4 is asection, also at the line 3 3 in Fig. 1, showing the platform and amachine which it is supporting lowered into the cabinet and the lidthereof closed. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the cabinet closed.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

The stationary portions of the cabinet consist, preferably, of two casesof drawers A, forming its ends, connectedand secured together by meansof a top A, having a central opening A therein. Two inner end pieces Aare also placed substantially parallel to each other against the innersides of the cases of drawers A and secured .to theunder side of the topA. To the insides of the inner end pieces A are secured stops A, whichserve to limit the downward swing of parts to" be described hereinafter.

B is the lid of the cabinet and is connected to the upper side of thetop A thereof by means of hinges B.

O is .a platform hinged at C in the opening A in the top A of thecabinet.

D is a leaf located below and rigidly connected with the platform C bymeans of the .end and side connecting-pieces D D and the bracket E. Itsobject is the production of a G is a longitudinal groove in the upperside of the top A and the under side of its lid B.

H is a flexible connection, of leather, rawhide, or chain, passing overthe pulleys FF and fast by one end H to the rigid projection H on thepart D andby the other end H to the under side of the lid B.

I is a sewing-machine mounted in the usual manner on the platform C;

J is a belt for driving the machine.

Figs. 1, 2, and 3 show the cabinet opened and the platform C thereofsupporting the machine I in operative position, the open lid B servingas a counterweight to maintain the machine, through its platform C,insuch operative position.

I Fig. 4 shows the machine included within the cabinet, the stops Athereon serving to limit the downward swing of the leaf D andtherethrough support the platform C and machine I when not in use andits lid B closed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a sewing-machine cabinet, the combination of a top having anopening, alid hinged to the upper side of said top, a platform hinged insaid opening to move at right angles to the movement of the lid, a leafdisposed beneath said platform, end and side connecting-pieces rigidlyjoining the platform and leaf, a rigid projection on the frontconnecting-piece and disposed within and protected by the leaf, a

bracket depending from the under side of the top, pulleys mounted insaid bracket at right angles to each other with one of said pulleysmounted in a recess in the top, said top having a longitudinal grooveand the lid a corre- I00 sponding groove, and a flexible connectionsecured at one end to the under side of said lid and disposed in saidgrooves with its other end passed around said pulleys and secured tosaid projection on the front connecting plate of the leaf and having abearing over the edge of said platform,all substantially as herein shownand described.

2. The combination with a table-top having a holethrough it, and adrop-leaf hinged to the front of said top and adapted to close saidhole, with an extension-top hinged to said table on an axis at rightangles to the axis of said dropleaf, and a sheave and a roller carriedby the stantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WVILLIAM (1. FREE.

Witnesses:

L. L. MORRISON, N ELLIE BUNKER.

